Summary

After living in die Hütte for some time, Punzel asks James for a piano, and James promises he will make one. James then reveals that he brought the sheet music for La Campanella from home, and as Punzel looks at the music, she thinks, “I would have stepped into that world if I could” (156). On the music, Punzel finds Ute’s performance notes to herself. James begins teaching Punzel how to read music, and as he sings the melody to La Campanella, Punzel thinks it sounds “like a trapped bird fluttering against a window” (158). James draws piano keys on their wooden table, and Punzel begins learning to play on them. After practicing scales for the summer, Punzel begins to learn La Campanella, saying Ute’s annotations were “messages written for me to find, in the middle of a forest on a...